Citrix Xenserver Log Rotation

We had issues with log rotation in XenServer causing the disk space to use completely and get hung, I had to delete the log file manually everytime this happens. So we decided to rotate the log files ensuring it doesn’t hog up disk space.

Change /etc/logrotate.conf

Rotate 5 (will hold only 5 MB log files)

Enabled compress (will compress log files)

Configure logrotation every hour

mv /etc/cron.daily/logrotate /etc/cron.hourly/logrotate

Disable default logging to syslog. This was done to address the issue described in the below article.